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"I know"

He cocked his head "Then why bother?"

Running th to drape over my shoulder "Because they won’t expect it And the element of surprise can make a tiny knife become a sword"

He chuckled "Deep Sounds like Confucius or soed "Doesn’t matter I knohat I est you stay out of hed quietly "Hey As long as you stay away froe Ever since Kes told me what Jethro planned to do on his thirtieth, I knew e another day

Jethro’s corpse would forever re

"What? What was he planning?"

"He didn’t tell you?" He crossed his ar thieves That was the reason all of this grew out of control"

Breathing hard, I sed sadness "No, he didn’t tell me"

Flaw softened "Sorry"

I swiped at n of tears "So, as he planning?"

He’s dead But he’s still here…holding h he was gone, fully bittersweet

Flaw looked behind him at the open door His face shadowed, and for a ht he’d refuse to say, but then he lowered his voice "Once everything was his, he planned on ripping up the contracts Ending it"

My eyes greide "Forever?"

"Yup"

"He would have that power?"

Flaw turned rigid, his thoughts obviously on topics he didn’t enjoy "Of course He was a Hawk They made the contract They had the power to absolve it Jethro planned to split up the estate equally between his brothers and sister and ban Cut and Bonnie frorounds" He rubbed his chin "I only know that because Kes told ht not require the Club to transport shipether"

"He didn’t want to srown close to Jethro, yet we’d never shared our future together Never lain in bed and murmured about anted or dreamed

Because our future was bleak